It is commonly believed that deep in the jungles of Sevii and Orange, colonies of wild Victreebel can be found. In truth, the Victreebel are not wild, but domestic, farmed by indigenous people for their edible leaves and acid with which to tip their arrows. They guard their secret with great ferocity, killing most who encounter it, and it has only leaked to the outside world with the development of satellite photography. This leak created astonishment in the scientific community, as Victreebel were long considered a textbook example of a pokemon too large, ill-tempered, and economically worthless to domesticate.
This astonishment speaks far more to the prejudices of Man than it does any particular trait of Victreebel. Bellsprout have been regarded by most cultures as a weed: they are an ugly plant, seldom beloved, producers of little of value, and tend to invade areas where more valuable plants such as Oddish are grown. The monks of Sprout Tower honor them, but even they do not love Weepinbell, whose acid has made them feared where not hated almost everywhere. And Victreebel could be no more beloved than its predecessors.
It is not Victreebel who were too ill-tempered to domesticate, it is humanity which was too ill-tempered to domesticate them. Only when pushed back against the harshness of a pokemon jungle, when losing the military edge which once let them raid nearby settlements and pushed up against starvation, did a people finally learn to tap their potential.
